{"id":343331,"date":"2026-01-12T12:12:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/mercedes-pauses-level-3-driving-assistance-for-now\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T12:12:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:12:37","slug":"mercedes-pauses-level-3-driving-assistance-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/mercedes-pauses-level-3-driving-assistance-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes pauses Level 3 driving assistance \u2013 for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/mercedes-pauses-level-3-driving-assistance-for-now.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Mercedes benz drive pilot\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" \/><br \/>As the first German manufacturer, Mercedes-Benz has long offered a Level 3 driving assistant (&#8216;hands-off, eyes off&#8217;) in the S-Class and its electric counterpart, the EQS. However, the new version will likely only feature a Level 2 system instead. <a href=https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2026\/01\/12\/mercedes-pauses-level-3-driving-assistance-for-now\/ target='_blank'>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/mercedes-pauses-level-3-driving-assistance-for-now.webp&#8221; class=&#8221;attachment-large size-large&#8221; alt=&#8221;Mercedes benz drive pilot&#8221; decoding=&#8221;async&#8221; fetchpriority=&#8221;high&#8221; loading=&#8221;eager&#8221; \/&gt;As the first German manufacturer, Mercedes-Benz has long offered a Level 3 driving assistant (&#8216;hands-off, eyes off&#8217;) in the S-Class and its electric counterpart, the EQS. However, the new version will likely only feature a Level 2 system instead&#8230;. <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/mercedes-pauses-level-3-driving-assistance-for-now\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":343332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}